Böcker av Andrea Weiss

Religious scholars and leaders engage in a nonpartisan letter-writing campaign following the 2021 Presidential inauguration. In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, biblical scholar Andrea L. Weiss and graphic designer Lisa M. Weinberger teamed up to create Values & Voices, a national nonpartisan campaign that used letters and social media to highlight core American values connected to our diverse religious traditions. The result was American Values, Religious Voices: 100 Days, 100 Letters, a collection of one hundred letters written by some of America's most accomplished and thoughtful scholars of religion interspersed with original artwork during the first one hundred days of the Trump presidency. In 2021, Weiss and Weinberger invited religious scholars and leaders to address President Biden, Vice President Harris, and members of the 117th Congress in their national letter writing and social media campaign. During the first 100 days of the Biden administration, religious leaders from across the country and from a range of religious denominations once again sent one letter a day to elected leaders in Washington. These letters bring an array of religious texts and teachings to bear on our most pressing contemporary issues. Arranged chronologically, the 2021 edition features 59 returning letter writers and 42 new scholars, new artwork, original essays, and and a new section focused on putting the letters into practice by using them for teaching, preaching, meditative practice, civic activism, and more. An alternate table of contents arranged by core values that emerged in the letters over the 100 days allows for thematic reading.

In diesem Jahr war alles anders. Abstand statt alltäglicher Begegnungen, Ausgangsbeschränkung statt Normalbetrieb, Grenzschließung statt Osterurlaub am Meer. Auch das Geburtstagsgeschenk für die Autorin war in diesem Jahr anders: Sie bekam von ihrem Mann die Anregung, ein Buch zu schreiben. Was sie anfangs für undenkbar hielt, begann Gestalt anzunehmen und sie verpackte die Erfahrungen, Gedanken und Erinnerungen aus dieser verwirrenden Zeit in Geschichten und diese letztlich in ein Buch. Und so war ihr Geburtstagsgeschenk in diesem Jahr ein Buch, das sie selbst geschrieben hatte. Das Buch ist aber auch ein Danke an ihren Mann und gleichzeitig ein Glückwunsch an alle Geburtstagskinder - an jedem Tag des Jahres.

Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century. Now with a new preface and illustrations, this "scrapbook" of their work—along with Andrea Weiss' lively commentary—highlights the political, social, and artistic lives of the renowned lesbian and bisexual Modernists, including Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach, and many more.Painstakingly researched and profusely illustrated, it is an enlightening account of women who between wars found their selves and their voices in Paris. A wealth of photographs, paintings, drawings, and literary fragments combine with Weiss' revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for who Paris was neither mistress nor muse, but a different kind of woman.